Word: cab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits and telephone calls, because newshawks and cameramen flocked about her, Mrs. Volz's employer dismissed...
...with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third sax in Cab Casa Loma's orchestra as set forth by the Tiger...
Leona Jane Ettlinger, elder daughter of Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co., returned from a walk with her father in Manhattan's Central Park, found that she had lost a $70,000 necklace containing 77 pearls, four emeralds, a large diamond...
...head out the window; drunken Paul Olivier terrifying the other patrons of a cabaret by fondling a revolver with a view to suicide, readily giving up to the headwaiter, then pulling a second from another pocket; The final shot from above the deserted street in which wait the abandoned cab and flower cart...
...would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their audiences to detect the slightest bit of sanity in the antics of their comedian-Joseph Lytell ("Joe") Cook. Mr. Cook is Broadway Joe, beloved hansom cab driver and a horse's best friend, a devotion which ultimately elects him Mayor of New York. His first appearance is made in front of Rector's. The painted backdrop does not look much like the facade of Rector's; neither does Broadway Joe's cab look...